October 14, 2018 The Latest: Pope declares Oscar Romero, Pope Paul VI saints The Latest on Catholic Church canonizations on Sunday (all times local).
October 14, 2018 Pope to canonize El Salvador's Oscar Romero, Pope Paul VI Thousands of people are converging on the Vatican for the canonization of two of the towering figures of the 20th-century Catholic Church: Pope Paul VI, who oversaw the modernizing church reforms of the 1960s, and Archbishop Oscar Romero, a human rights icon who was murdered for his defense of El Salvador's poor.
October 13, 2018 Spontaneous caravan of migrants winds way through Honduras A caravan of more than 1,000 Hondurans is winding its way toward their country's border with Guatemala, with the goal of reaching a better life in the United States.
October 13, 2018 Saudi writer's disappearance strains Turkey-Saudi ties At first glance, the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi from the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul is just the latest crisis to strain relations between the kingdom and Turkey in the wake of the Arab Spring in 2011.
October 13, 2018 Taliban say 'general' discussion held with US special envoy The Taliban held talks with the U.S. special envoy tasked with finding a negotiated end to Afghanistan's protracted and increasingly bloody war, a Taliban official said Saturday.
October 13, 2018 Pope defrocks 2 more Chilean priests accused of sex abuse Pope Francis on Saturday defrocked two more Chilean prelates accused of sexually abusing minors, and to show greater transparency about how he's responding to the church's global sex abuse crisis, the pontiff publicly explained why they were removed.
October 13, 2018 The Latest: Trump says Saudis deny kingdom killed writer The Latest on missing Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi (all times local): 3:15 p.m. President Donald Trump says Saudi leaders, as of now, "deny it every way you can imagine" allegations that journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by the kingdom.
October 13, 2018 Pope's canonization of Paul VI, Romero personal, political Pope Francis will canonize two of the most important and contested figures of the 20th-century Catholic Church, declaring Pope Paul VI and the martyred Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero as models of saintliness for the faithful today.
October 13, 2018 Venezuela frees, uproots to Spain jailed opposition activist Venezuelan authorities have freed a prominent opposition activist jailed for four years just days after an anti-government politician died in state custody.
October 12, 2018 The Latest: Washington Cardinal Wuerl apologizes to faithful The Latest on the resignation of Washington Cardinal Donald Wuerl (all times local): 5:35 p.m. Washington Cardinal Donald Wuerl is apologizing to Catholics in his archdiocese after Pope Francis accepted his resignation as archbishop amid unfolding sex abuse and cover-up scandals.
